I would like to say the highlight of my weekend was the fact that I warmed up on a 5.9 sport lead, or that I lead my first 5.10a called My Bloody Valentine, or that Billy and I did a night climb, or even that I saw my first tarantula in the wild; but instead, White Out took the cake… We got to New Jack City slightly before 11 on Saturday morning. Luckily we were able to get, what weRead more

My first multi-pitch sport climb… and some other stuff I did. In a semi-last minute state of hunting a weekend getaway to escape the heat, Billy and I decided to go to Red Rock last weekend. Yes, this is correct, we went to Las Vegas to escape the Los Angeles heat wave. It might not have been cool, per say, but it was consistently over 10 degrees cooler than LA. I’ll consider that a win. We arrived in RedRead more

August 31, 2014 I will never EVER ever forget Zee Tree. There is a laundry lists of first that happened that day, but mainly, most notably, it was my first multi-pitch climb. Zee Tree is a relatively easy slab climb in Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite, CA. I was climbing the route with my soon to be boyfriend, Billy, and his two climbing friends Rovi and Sheila. Of the four I was the most inexperience, follow by Sheila. Sheila has been climbingRead more